Improvement in razor-strops



J. R. TORREY.

RAZOR STRAP.

Patented March 27,1877.

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' JOSEPH R. TORREY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

- lMPROVEMEN-T IN RAZOR-STROPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Na 188,830, dated March 27, 1877; application filed October 27, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. ToRREY, of the city and county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bazor-Strops; and I do hereby declare that the 'followin g is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to'the ac companying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of ar'azorstrop made according to my invention. Fig. 2 represents an edgeview of the razor-stropv shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a side view of the strop at one stage of its manufacture.

Fig. 4 represents an edge view of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal central section on line A B, Fig. 3. 'Fig, 6 represents a section on same line at a subsequent stage of the mode or-process of manufacture, as will be hereafter tail. I

In the drawings, the part marked A.represents the central stemor frame of the strop,

' extended at one end to .form the handle B.

Paper bags 0 G are first glued to the sides of the part A, andthen the metal band D is secured near the handle B, in the manner indicated in the drawings. A tapering former, E

7 having a notch, a, is then run into the paper bag on each side of the central frame or supportA, whereby said paper bags are extended and stretched in a uniform manner. A leather covering, F, is now stretch ed over and about the entire ends of .the parts A and 0,0 fromthe pointG'back to themetal band D, said leather covering being glued to the outer surfaces of the paper bags, and also to the outer edges 1) of the centrallpart A. After said leather covering has been properly applied and prepared to receiveits stropping coverving,the formersE areremoved, and bran, H, is forced into the paper bags 0 Q until they and their leather covering F are extended, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 6.

Owing to the peculiar shape and construction of the formers E E-the same being wedge-shaped in the direction of their length upon their outer sides, and also sloping in both directions from their centers in crosssection-the slack or stretch of the leather casing or covering is taken up, and carried or worked slightly forward toward the outer end G of the strop, whereby, when the stuffing operation is completed, the rear of the strop is not, in size, greatlyin excess of the size of the other end, while the general shape on both sides is quite uniform, thereby producing two very perfect and elastic stropping-surfaces, one on each side.

After the bran is forced into the paper bags, the open ends of said bags are closed by a stuffing, c, of some elastic substance, to retain the bran in position; and, if desired, a suitable stropping composition or compound, d, may be placed in the ends of the bags, to be used to cover the strop w hen required to keep the leather surface thereofin the proper condition for use.

I am aware that Letters Patent were granted to U. G. Haynes, October 25, 1859, for improvement in razorstrops, and therefore disclaim the mode or process practiced by said Haynes, and described in the aforesaid patent.

Having described my improved razor strop,

.what I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure ,by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination of the stretched taper and convex paper bags 0 O with the stem A, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the stretched convex and paper bags 0 0, metal band D, and stem A, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The convex and taper former, as shown and set forth.

JOSEPH B. TORREY. 

